Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 01:17:42 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dealing with zombies Message-ID: <199712100017.BAA04837@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199712082025.MAA07048@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208124226.4982A-100000@acroal.com>
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"J. Weatherbee - Senior Systems Architect" <jamil@acroal.com> wrote: > As I recall under linux setting up a signal handler that excutes waitpid() > is not necessary if you are set (by default) to ignore SIGCHLD. FreeBSD now also supports `automatic' reaping of zombies, but it's not the default. Linux is about the only system where this is default (on SysV, signal(SIGCLD, SIGDFL) != signal(SIGCLD, SIG_IGN)), so it's in the responsibility of the Linuxulator to emulate this default in the Linux environment. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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